ERROL HAD AN ASTRONOMICALLY LARGE, VARIED AND WIDESPREAD NUMBER OF FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES & AFFILIATIONS.
THIS POST IS TO HELP CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF PEOPLE AND GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO HAD A ROLE IN ERROL’S EXTRAORDINARY LIFE – FROM A to Z – In Repeated Cycles – from Aadland to Zimbalist and Beyond!
I’ll start posting alphabetically, with hope and encouragement that all of you will join in by posting other names & photos of The Flynn Crowd!
— Tim
Giving B’s a Chance: The Beautiful Brigette Bardot:
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Anyone with a ‘C’???
From the South Seas, a Couple of ‘C’s:
The Great Charles & Elsa Chauvel:
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D Fantastique Lili Damita!
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The Extraordinary Nora Eddington!
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The Flynntastic Professor Flynn!!
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Georgeous Ava Gardner!
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The Herculean Howard Hill:
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The ‘I’s have it. Ralph Ince directing “Coney Island”:
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Errol was His Favorite Actor – Dickie Jones!
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Leading Off for the K’s: Patric Knowles
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One ‘L’ of a Great Friend: Lovely Ida Lupino:
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For All of ‘M’, beginning with Freddie McEvoy:
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‘N’ now Niven!
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‘O’ Say Can You See. Merle Oberon!
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‘P’ begins with Phenomenal Pulchritude: The Elegant Eleanor Parker!!
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A ‘Q’ for Anthony Quinn:
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Here we ‘R’ with Rathbone, Sir Basil Rathbone:
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‘S’ for the Sensational Ann Sheridan!!
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Not exactly a “friend” but Dan Topping (husband of Sonja Henie and owner of the New York Yankees) once knocked our hero down at Sonja’s birthday party. They remained “the best of friends”.
Terrific, Maria! Can’t top the Toppings!! How about we include the two of them – Dan & Sonya both!!
They’re In with The Flynn Crowd:
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Hmm “U” is a tough one – how about Una O’Connor?
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U got it, Maria! Una it is! (With Herbert Mundin for good measure!) …. We may have to do a similar U-turn for ‘X’!
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The Vivacious, Voluptuous & occasionally Volcanic, Lupe Velez. V-rrroom!
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Walsh. Raoul Walsh. What a Director!
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The Xceptional Xavier Cougat, with A Most Xtraordinary Fan on Six-String:
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Completing our first A-Z cycle, we visit the Y, commencing with Robert Young & Robert Young.
Yes, two Robert Youngs. First & foremost, Robert Young (no photo posted) the director of the Northhampton Repertory Theater, which proved so pivotal in Errol’s life & career, essentially where he cut his teeth for Hollywood. … Then we have this far more well known Robert Young:
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Abbott, Costello & Flynn!!!
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John Barrymore and Errol !
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Jack Carson !
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Olivia DeHavilland !
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If you ever have time please listen to the Parkinson Interviews (BBC) with David Niven – there is more than one – and he mentions Errol, recounting the story of the lance up the horse’s behind during the filming of the “Charge of the Light Brigade” He loved Errol. What a delightful person he was –
Yes, Niven was great! He and Flynn shared a house rented from Rosalind Russell, I think, during one of Errol’s breakups with La Damita … And Niv always defended Flynn from the Higham charges, as did Mickey Rooney. I wrote Niven twice and received letters from him postmarked from France and Switzerland where he had homes. If you want a great read do read Niv’s The Monn’s a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses which has a chapter on Errol.
That is SO cool, David! Letters from Niv himself!! What a good man and friend he was – even after Errol cut his ski line off Catalina!!
I have to listen to those interviews, Maria! Thanks, they sounds great. Good thing it wasn’t Our Man Flynn handling that lance! … If it were, Sickem Higham would have added beastiality to his list of dicko charges against Errol!!
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The Most Certainly Glorious Faye Emerson!
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Sean! Son of Flynn!!
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I have been curious about the career of the Chauvels who gave Errol his start. There is a lot of information on the Internet as his films have been recently released in DVD format. What a life! I think it would have been great if Warner’s had lent Errol to do a picture with the Charles Chauvel during those heady days –
What a wonderful, talented and devoted pioneering family, Maria! They gave so much to Australia and the World, including Errol. … What a great idea that is about Errol having worked with the Chauvels again! He could have used you as a friend, producer & promoter!!! Imagine Flynn having done a documentary film or series of films on Down Under and the South Seas . And with Chauvel’s unparalleled team of explorer/filmmakers. WOW! And he could have used the Zaca!
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Glamorous Greer Garson!
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A Helluva Friend & Actor: Alan Hale!!
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If I may, if the ‘I’s will indulge, I’d like to include here an interlude of interest to all those In With Flynn. Inspired by The In Crowd video below, I think it would be most cool to inject new “I’m In with the Flynn Crowd” lyrics & images into a new video, retitled, of course, “The Flynn Crowd”.
Dobie Gray – The In Crowd (Shindig): youtu.be/OOWO–z1S8A…
Here are some enthusiastic former members!
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Hi David- I did read both and just loved them. I am not sure in which one David meets up with Flynn in later years and (if I remember correctly) they just sit quietly in friendship. I could just picture it.
You’re right, I can’t recall which book that meeting is in, either, but it must have been wonderful. I am told Niven used to walk every morning to a small cafe in Gsstaad, and sit having breakfast. If you recognized him, he would invite you to sit with him and talk. If I had known this while he was living I woulkd have moved Heaven and Earth to go there and spend that kind of time with him. One of the best storytellers in the world, can you image?
You know some days I cannot string 2 words together and I am always impressed with how well spoken David , Errol and Olivia were – lovely to listen to. As for Gstaad I would have been right behind you. Our world is so different – who is there today in the entertainment world that you would want to listen to for an hour or so? If I have a chance I am going to look through those books at the library and find the passages.
Tim- love it! So true!
There’s a couple of J’s in this one – Van Johnson & George Jessel. Van Johnson was a great admirer of Errol and a good guy toward him, I believe. I’m not so sure of Jessel, though he did used to drink with Errol, Barrymore, John Decker, and W.C. Fields (often at the Seven Seas on Hollywood Boulevard.) I think Tom McNulty’s book indicates Flynn hated Jessel. So, maybe Johnson’s in, Jessel’s out! – depending how we decide to identify The Flynn Crowd!
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The Maestro!
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Errol’s Sirocco-One “shipmate”, Rex Long-Innes!
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* Please Ignore Fake Autograph!
Brenda Marshall
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Betty Hutton – what a great performer!
The Great Anna Neagle:
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Peter O’Toole:
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Micheline Presles – Magnifique!
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Claude Rains!
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Henry Stephenson!
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TAZ!
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From Ibiza to Jamaica – Ursula!
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V for Victor – Victor Pahlen – from St. Petersburg, Habana & Hollywood:
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The Warners – Jack & Ann!!
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X-Men Creator and Big Flynn Fan, the Marvelous Stan Lee!
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Errol’s Young Family – Lily & Grandparents Edith & Hammer, et al:
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